Linguistics // Postgraduate study at Essex

Linguistics POSTGRADUATE STUDY AT ESSEX

Everything starts with language It is fundamental to our thought, relationships and civilisation. Study for a postgraduate degree in our Department of Language and Linguistics and open the door to a new world.

We are one of the largest and most prestigious language and linguistics departments on the planet. You’ll become part of our academic community that undertakes world-leading research.

If you want a global outlook, are interested in human communication and want to study for a degree with real-world practical value in a world-class department, welcome home.

Our courses MA English Language and Linguistics Gain an in-depth investigation of the grammatical system and the sound system of English. In addition, our specialist modules cover a wide range of topics related to English, including dialectal and social variation, language change, phonetics, pragmatics and conversation analysis.

MA Applied Linguistics If you want to know more about how foreign or second languages (particularly English) are learned, and how different kinds of classroom practice might affect proficiency, this course is for you. You study different approaches to understanding language and language acquisition, and we teach you the methods used to investigate language learning and teaching.

MA Linguistics Gain a formal and empirical grounding in all core areas of linguistics including phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. We review and evaluate the major theoretical approaches in these disciplines.

MA Linguistic Studies Expand your knowledge of language through studying everything from syntax, to computer-assisted language-learning, to language and gender, to language disorders, to multilingualism.

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MA Psycholinguistics Gain a strong foundation in the experimental investigation of the representation of language in the mind, human language processing, language acquisition and language disorders. Investigating the similarities and differences in the processing of sounds, words and sentences, this course looks at different kinds of language impairment and considers the relevance of findings in these areas for our understanding of the nature of language.

MA Sociolinguistics Explore current work in sociolinguistics and learn the basis of contemporary sociolinguistics – language variation and change, discourse, multilingualism, and ethnography of speaking.

MA Teaching English as a Foreign Language/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TEFL/TESOL) Interested in teaching English as a second language? Do you want to develop your understanding, knowledge and skills?

This course offers you vocationally-relevant, research-led training of the highest quality, taught by academics known for their teaching excellence. If you have no or little previous teaching experience, we’ll give you hands-on practice. If you have at least two years’ full-time teaching experience, then you undertake specialist study instead.

So, why Essex?

Quality research and teaching We’re one of the largest and most prestigious departments for language and linguistics research in the UK, ranked top 10 for research quality (REF 2014).

More than three-quarters of our research was rated ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ and we are ranked among the top 150 departments on the planet for linguistics (QS 2016). Our research feeds directly into our teaching to ensure that you have a learning experience of the highest quality.

Thriving graduate community We have a large and thriving graduate community of taught Masters and research students that provides an active and stimulating environment in which to learn and carry out research.

I now work as a Speech Data Evaluator for Google, and what I learnt during my time at Essex, particularly in phonology and variation-in-English, is very relevant to my role. Being a student at Essex was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.

Vina Osaigbovo, MA English Language and Linguistics graduate

Get in touch E rclift@essex u www.essex.ac.uk/langling/pg This leaflet was accurate at time of printing in October 2016.

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